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Show TOWN ALMOST DEPOPULATED. Yellow Fever Scourge In Mexico Creates Cre-ates Reign of Terror. Death and panic by yellow fever after a reign of two months have reduced re-duced the population of Llnaros, Mexico, Mex-ico, from 16,000 to 4,000, and the dread scourge Is vanishing because the remainder re-mainder of the population has beea Immuncd. It has been a siege of horror. Deaths during the most malevolent days numbered num-bered from twolvo to thirty, and people peo-ple fled through tho mountains afoot and by any means pksslble. Fow Americans remain and previously thoro wore nearly 2,000 living there. The authorities, though no efforts wore spared, found It difficult to handle the situation because tho outbreak out-break of tho disease was general and the spread rapid, and It was necessary to haul the dead to the burying ground without preparing them for. burial. More than 400 persons were Stricken at the same time, and as fast as they died or recovered others fell before tho hot breath of Yellow Jack. Mothers remained who could have saved their lives to nurse their stricken strick-en sons, and sisters stayed by tholr brothers until they fell, only to ride on the same dead wagon. The moonlight moon-light summer nights which had so boautlflcd the plaza and afforded the throng of promenaders the Inspiration so lovely, coupled with the native strains of the government band, were nights of dire misery, and the streets wore gloomy and deserted. |